Hacker, Cybersecurity, Internet, Surveillance, Cryptography

CYBER-SECURITY #Hacker - TOR users become FBI's No.1 hacking target after legal power grab - http://goo.gl/uaE0ac  - Rule 41. Fed Rules Crim Procedure FBI snitch Hector Xavier “Sabu” Monsegur >> cyber-attacks against foreign governments while under FBI control http://goo.gl/uaE0ac  ---------------------------------------- Follow this Twitter if interested in cryptography https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green  >> computers & cryptography @ Johns Hopkins University - #hacker #USA #Surveillance #cybersecurity - proposed Fed Rule 41 Crim Procedures - info - http://goo.gl/tiXgQ7  >>> FBI overseas hacking >> Note: "Board of Editors include individuals with significant government experience ..." >> How independent is info? #Hacker #surveillance - QUANTUM networks spread http://goo.gl/U41C95  - QKD - photons in partic. quantum states 2 gen. secure crypto key #hacker / standard cryptography relies on hard mathematical probs > can theoretically be cracked given enough computing power. /newscientist Battelle n-f-p science r/sch / plans 2 use use existing fibre-optic network 2 test larger quantum network to link Ohio to WA / newscientist #China wide-area QKD network experiment done / QKD b/w Beijing & Shanghai is due completion by 2016 Perform/ decrease w/ dist. b/w nodes /req. trusted node b/w 2 parties 2 establish link w/ each of them /+ need quant/ repeater #IT #Cryptography - Research shows that it is possible to hack QKD systems (due to flaws in hardware)!! - 2 address prob. / newscientist #Cryptography - QKD can't hide that you are talking to someone - but can 2 send a SMALL amt data w/out notice IF disguise MSG inherent noise http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329873.000-quantum-internet-could-keep-us-safe-from-spying-eyes.html?page=2 ----------------------------------------   COMMENT The 'cryptography' isn't strictly cryptography; I think it is something to do with quantum engineering instead. Interesting stuff.   The New Scientist article (link above) is very well written because it's so easy to read.   Check this stuff out, it's really cool.

RUSSIA - Internet | Oligarchs

RUSSIA INTERNET ----------------------------------------  #Internet - Security officials & IT giants may make #Russia sector of net independent http://on.rt.com/v8synu  - [as counter to]     #USA     internet kill-switch #USA - NSA whistleblower Edward #Snowden says NSA unintentionally caused the November 2012 internet blackout in #Syria Obama gives himself control of all communication systems in USA - July 2012 http://on.rt.com/jko4gg  - WH / EO Press http://goo.gl/S15En5  #Russia govt may take over functions of ru + .рф .. b/c negotiations 2 make ICANN body less dependent on #USA going nowhere / #Internet #Russia / runet organically grew from foreign parts of infrastructure >> #China developed own segment of #internet & keeps tight control #NorthKorea -- Wow, Nth Korea has its own internet!!! OLIGARCHS   ----------------------------------------  #Russia Sept 19. /ITAR-TASS/. AFK Sistema chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov remains under house arrest - http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/750354 ----------------------------------------

Egypt - Owned by Foreign Oil Companies - $6 BILLION DEBT

EGYPT ----------------------------------------   WOW!!! >> #Germany #Canada #Italy, Tunisian & ors (?) -- oil & gas exploration deals @ $187m signed by #EGYPT >> http://goo.gl/I8pV39 >"Egypt has started repaying ... debt to foreign oil companies, which had reached more than $6 BILLION" -- So Egypt pays THEM! ----------------------------------------    COMMENT Found this snippet interesting. It looks like Egypt's paying the money out instead of the other way around, which I would have expected. Check out the debt to foreign oil companies!  Egypt sounds like it's owned. This info tells you who is particularly cosy with Egypt, I'm guessing.

China Telcom Expansion / China Invests in India - Sino-Indian Border Dispute Resolution

CHINA Business / Telecommunications #China telecom device maker (allegedly the back-door dudes!!) - new research + development org opens #France - http://goo.gl/HFUBEL  >> back-door info >> http://www.zdnet.com/former-pentagon-analyst-china-has-backdoors-to-80-of-telecoms-7000000908/ … >> Huawei to invest: USD203.3 million to build a new R&D centre in Bristol, Britain. [NOTE:  Huawei currently has a R&D unit in Britain's Ipswich.] >> "Huawei launched a new innovation centre in Walldorf, #Germany, in August 2014" -- http://goo.gl/HFUBEL ----------------------------------------   INVESTMENT & BORDERS - INDIA #China + #India kiss & make up>USD$20b China investment in India infrastructure + manuf/ + border dispute resolution http://goo.gl/yko7MX >Border to be resolved by demarcating the Line of Actual Control (LAC) /legal recognition in Sino-Indian agreements 1993/96 ---------------------------------------- COMMENT China appears very prosperous and relations have improved, so all seems to be going well for China  - in these parts of the world, at least.

SWEDEN: ECJ - VAT - UK implications

SWEDEN #Sweden has another corporate boot-licker? Social Democratic party leader, Stefan Lofven - http://goo.gl/hpNxRV  - Uh-oh EU - CoJ - Ruling (VAT) - Implications #EU Court of Justice ruling: Sweden can tax Skandia US 4 providing IT 2 Swedish unit as a separate entity re VAT >>http://goo.gl/DkZLus  #UK "could add hundreds of millions of pounds of taxes to banks & insurers" - British Banker Assoc - no comment. LOL! >"doing ..business internally as a global institutions could become 20% more expensive" - But UK law 'wriggle room' .. KPMG NOTE:  CAR INDUSTRY CAN RECLAIM VAT ... FINANCIAL CANNOT ---------------------------------------- COMMENT Should be interesting to see which way the UK goes. Guessing government -- which is corporations controlled -- is going to try to dodge the unpopular tax that affects financial institutions.

Norway - Prisons & US Corporatisation of Prisons

NORWAY #Norway - more convicted prisoners than beds / 1,300 @ home waiting to serve sentences / Norway 2 send prisoners 2 Netherlands /businessweek UN says Norway's borrowing of US practices is WORRYING - Belgians already housing Dutch prisoners / $52mil rent - SO WRONG!! USA - Corporatisation of Prisons  >> US shift Federal inmates around the country as standard practice.  Same x4 US states. Can invest in prisons in US.  SICKOS! Here's the deets on investment in CORRECTIONS CORP OF AMERICA http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=CXW … >>> OMG!! They're prisoners of CORPORATE AMERICA #WallStreet -- US society is really SICK. ---------------------------------------- #Norway central bank, Norges Bank, announced Thurs/ it has decided 2 keep key policy rate unchanged at 1.5% - b/c output & inflation same >> However, policy rates were lowered in Euro area + Sweden -- article re this & the above here: http://goo.gl/qhQCTd ---------------------------------------- COMMENT Find it really disturbing that prisoners a moved across national borders in Europe and that there appears to be a move to corporatising prisons, like the US. The US shifting prisoners across internal borders is also disturbing, as is the full-on corporatisation of prisons -- to the extent that this is a money-spinner for investors! So wrong.

Politics, History - Russia & Neighbours

RUSSIA Last minutes of False Dmitriy >> 1606 >> Shot dead, displayed, cremated & shot from a cannon towards #Poland. pic.twitter.com/ol3ASiGrBx >FALSE DMITRIY of canon to #Poland fame "... rumours that Dmitriy was an illegitimate son of the Polish king, Stefan Batory " Countess Elizabeth Báthory d.1614 > serial killer, 640 victims - held at Čachtice Castle (Slovakia), built 1200s pic.twitter.com/d8IE6DaXfM  >> Her mother, Elizabeth, cousin of Hungarian Stefan Báthory, King of Polish-Lithuanian_C/wealth & Duke of Transylvania. "Defence Mins of Poland, Lithuania & #Ukraine before signing agreement on creating the joint Brigade" >> Is so False Dmitriy 1600s is spooky COMMENT Seriously, some things never change!