Saturday 29 September 2012
Forever in Existence
If we hope to preserve the knowledge and art produced by human
civilization long after we are gone, or send a message to beings far
from us in space of billions of years ahead in the future, it can be
done using quartz. Phys.org reports:
Information from http://knowtoomuch.info/post/32480140845/method-unveiled-to-store-data-forever-in-quartz-glass#disqus_thread
Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever (a few hundred million years at least).
Hitachi’s new technology stores data in binary form by creating dots inside a thin sheet of quartz glass, which can be read with an ordinary optical microscope. Provided a computer with the know-how to understand that binary is available—simple enough to programme, no matter how advanced computers become—the data will always be readable, Torii said.
Hitachi have not decided when to put the chip to practical use but researchers said they could start with storage services for government agencies, museums and religious organisations.
Information from http://knowtoomuch.info/post/32480140845/method-unveiled-to-store-data-forever-in-quartz-glass#disqus_thread
US accused of creating three more computer super-viruses
Two independent teams of researchers studying the Flame computer virus believe that the maker of the malware — all but certain to be the United States — has architected three additional programs to conduct clandestine cyberwar or espionage.
Both Symantec Corp of the United States and Kaspersky Lab of Russia acknowledged on Monday that their research of Flame has led them to believe that whoever had a role in creating that virus has also put their efforts behind three other similar programs.
A team of engineers at Kaspersky released new information on Monday collected during forensic analysis of Flame command-and-Control servers that were examined with the assistance of Symantec, ITU-IMPACT and CERT-Bund/BSI. Researchers had first disclosed in May that Flame, a sophisticated espionage virus, targeted computer systems in Iran and was likely the product of a nation-state, specifically the US. With this week’s update, however, it appears as if the United States’ endeavors in cyberwar may have stretched past even what researchers had imagined.
“Based on the code from the server, we know Flame was a project from a list of at least four. The purpose and nature of the other three remain unknown,” the group concludes.
Although the United States government has not gone on the record to take credit for either Flame or Stuxnet, a similar computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities first discovered in 2010, experts have long maintained that the US is involved in both viruses, perhaps even enlisting Israeli scientists for assistance.
Speaking at a TED Talk in 2011, researcher Ralph Langner said, “My opinion is that the Mossad is involved but that the leading force is not Israel. The leading force behind Stuxnet is the cyber superpower – there is only one; and that’s the United States.”
In January of this year, Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence at the National Security Agency under George W Bush, told Reuters that the US had indeed attacked foreign computer systems at one time or another, and confirmed that America has “the ability to attack, degrade or destroy” the e-grids of adversaries. When the New York Times followed up with a report of their own only five months later, members of US President Barack Obama’s national security team admitted on condition of anonymity that the White House continued cyber-assaults on Iran’s nuclear program through Stuxnet, which Mr. Obama himself endorsed.
Once compared with coding from Flame, security experts saw an immediate correlation.
“We are now 100 percent sure that the Stuxnet and Flame groups worked together,” Kapsersky’s Roel Schowenberg concluded earlier this year.
With America all but confirmed as the culprit behind both viruses, this week it’s revealed that the United States may have crafted another three coded programs to target Iran and its allies. Speaking to Reuters, researchers involved in the latest analysis say they are still trying to figure out the basic facts about the three new viruses, but believe that the same entity responsible for Stuxnet and Flame are at it again.
“We know that it is definitely out there. We just can’t figure out a way to actually get our hands on it. We are trying,” Symantec researcher Vikram Thakur tells Reuters.
Also in their report, Kaspersy say that the heavy encryption and nature of the newest programs “fits the profile of military and/or intelligence operations.”
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Walt Disney's Tron Legacy (2010)
This film has beautiful environments inside cyberspace. It is a wonderful starting point for inspirational research.
THE FEAR
For the Narrative group project, we have been assigned The Information Age (1970-2000)
This age saw a sudden burst of technological advancement. The world became smaller as people around the globe could communicate faster than ever before.
What was portrayed in science fiction literature and film suddenly became real.
However, with everything good, there was some 'bad' to even it out.
It became easier to steal a person's identity, to take down high profile organisations, to invade on the privacy of individuals.
Today, we live in a world where nothing is secure. Once a certain amount of information enters cyber space, it can never be lost forever. As convenient as that sounds, it is also highly scary. Anyone with the right tools can spy/steal/threaten you via the virtual network of the Internet.
What we plan to focus on is the 'FEAR' aspect of technological advancement. The threat of terror and the fact that it only takes one person and a single click of a button to take the world down.
This age saw a sudden burst of technological advancement. The world became smaller as people around the globe could communicate faster than ever before.
What was portrayed in science fiction literature and film suddenly became real.
However, with everything good, there was some 'bad' to even it out.
It became easier to steal a person's identity, to take down high profile organisations, to invade on the privacy of individuals.
Today, we live in a world where nothing is secure. Once a certain amount of information enters cyber space, it can never be lost forever. As convenient as that sounds, it is also highly scary. Anyone with the right tools can spy/steal/threaten you via the virtual network of the Internet.
What we plan to focus on is the 'FEAR' aspect of technological advancement. The threat of terror and the fact that it only takes one person and a single click of a button to take the world down.
Final Fantasy and Doctor Who Crossover Video
Hello! Lloyd, I think I found the video that Alan was talking about.
I have embedded it below. I don't know if you want to stick to a style like this or not. We could show the cyber warfare in an RPG format. It would be easier to tell the story. I did find it a bit monotonous and a tad boring after a while, though.
But yes, I thought that I would post this up =)
I have embedded it below. I don't know if you want to stick to a style like this or not. We could show the cyber warfare in an RPG format. It would be easier to tell the story. I did find it a bit monotonous and a tad boring after a while, though.
But yes, I thought that I would post this up =)
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