* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention

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:-) Money well spent indeed whenever one knows into whose private and personal accounts to lodge it.

Not knowing that creates more colossal and complex catastrophic problems made impossible to resolve without such a simple action.

A new Artificial Intelligence agency is meanwhile set to develop autonomous weapons systems.

Stressing the importance of data in future conflicts, a senior Whitehall source said: “What’s certain is that the future will be about cyber, space, AI.”

An MoD spokesman said: “As threats change our Armed Forces must change and they are being redesigned to confront future threats, not re-fight old wars. The Armed Forces will be fully staffed and equipped to confront those threats. .......... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/03/12/80bn-equipment-revealed-defence-review-tanks-jets-drones-hovering/

How very odd then that so much is being spent/wasted on a current physical arms re-fit to re-fight old wars style. It just doesn't make common sense, although that is hardly surprising to the many who listen to all that is shared for media to report as news as opposed to entertainment.

'Tis a common human failing that, ... a complete lack of future common sense .... and a systemic vulnerability to exploit and export and enjoy by virtue of excessive enrichment.

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Virtual WMD Developments ... Well, that Quantum Leap is One Small Step for AI and IT

The Google engineers say they also developed other PoCs with different properties that they aren't releasing. One, they claim, is capable of leaking data at a rate of 8kB/s, though that accelerated pace comes at the cost of diminished stability...

'Tis an interesting cost/benefit analysis to ponder whenever the accelerated pace of those ones also deliver increasingly excessive volatility in a commanding control led environment. It is though no wonder they wouldn't be releasing those Proofs of Concept, for it's a veritable flash crash/fast cash cow of an Easter egg which everyone would be wanting to exercise and milk/bilk, and with more that just a chosen few determined to try and corner the market in order to render to them an extraordinary overwhelming exclusive positive advantage.

I thought Google weren't into the Universal/Global Arms Race Market and yet here they are with something quite AWEsome .... and more than just alien in form for conventional defence and traditional military forces and sources to be supplied with in order not to be totally disengaged and helpless against future novel activities such as ACTive Abiding Astute Zer0day Hostilities against Systems Deaf Dumb and Blind and Brain Dead to Radical Fundamental Base Change.

Now ..... should that not have been the case that Google engineers discovered, then it sure as hell is one already in a development with/for A.N.Others.

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

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There is Only One Holistic System of Systems ... Networking AI Colossus

Hi, HildyJ ...... and Welcome to another world.

To imagine that any State assembly/Parliamentary body/Presidential executive/national collective anywhere, East or West, is responsible for the news that supposedly advises us of want we are to believe in and to do, with the serial infliction of pain and suffering or reward and pleasure on vast swathes of others, as surely the news and media certainly currently does, is something to consider is much more a perverse convenience rather than identifying the actual inescapable factual reality.

The latter in truth, and actual factual augmented virtual reality, may very well be stated in this mightily overlooked and inconveniently prescient monologue ‽ . ......... "The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)

No matter which though you might conclude to be the more acceptable and easiest to believe the more likely and possible and therefore probable, it will have just a few beings arranged as around a round table with a board of governors/systems drivers with the brightest and smartest of directors leading by virtue of their commanding contributions ensuring continuing stealthy supremacy of both their invisibly cloaked, renegade rogue and controlling non-state actor future activities with CHAOS.

And all here on El Reg should already be well aware of what CHAOS certainly is. It has often been freely shared to keep y'all abreast and au fait with virtual developments so that ignorance is not rendered your only available guide to future shenanigans/upcoming COSMIC events.

Test yourself here. Fill out what you think the above and following two expand into. The correct answers are easy enough to find, and you can have a lot of fun being silly and filling in your view. Take care though, because that can easily tell those who would be interested to know, a great deal more about you than maybe you would like them to possess ...

CHAOS .......

COSMIC .......

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Re: Sometimes it is best to lose graciously ... to save oneself from totally unnecessary pain

Don't forget, El Regers, a silent downvote on pages and comments here, is a golden opportunity crazily squandered to share with all readers in far away fields, an alternative opinion and views which may or may not be full to overflowing with common sense worth listening to.

Such is to be highly regarded and much prized, whether they prove themself to be valuable or worse than just worthless and excessively exclusively self-serving.

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Sometimes it is best to lose graciously ... in order to save oneself from totally unnecessary pain

Space may also point the way toward a solution with slides into an economic and military superiority. It may be possible that a similar approach - using "moonshot" technologies like artificial general intelligence and high qubit quantum computing - could place attackers so far ahead of defenders that defence and opposition and competition becomes effectively impossible and ruinously expensive and quite certain to guarantee a changeover into what would definitely be Greater IntelAIgent Gamesplay.

What's not to like?

Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

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Re: This person...

HUMANS are held accountable for their decisions. .... HammerOn1024

Oh please, you cannot be serious. Where have you been ? The supporters and planners and killers of the likes of a Harry Dunn or a Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi would be able to prove that an absolute nonsense .....

Some humans are held accountable for their actions, some others would think claiming and being granted immunity and safe secure harbour gifts them acting with impunity. You can almost hear them now shouting .... The corrupt system allowed me to do it, your honour. Don't blame me.

And then the system wonders why others exact vengeance and sweet justice via other unauthorised means. What a dumb system that is. Long past its sell by date, methinks, given the self-destructive problems that it creates rather than solves for incipiently stupid, knuckle dragging morons.

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An unwelcome opinion to try prove unerringly erroneous and outrageous?

Can this lead to weapons taking over and creating an empire of their own, turning the commanders into their slaves? Machine learning, autonomous weapons? What else will DOD come up with to get more money? ...... Norman123

Yes, Norman123. It can, and therefore does.

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Too Little, Too Late .... Prepare for Manic and Maniacal Hostilities ....

...... and Changes You Never Dreamed Possible and therefore Probable.

American should not turn its back on autonomous AI weapons. But the development should be carefully monitored to make sure it abides by ethical policies.

Now it is probably most wise to realise, that would be far too little, far too late .... for the absolute truth is the most one can do is to try and carefully monitor/spy on developments, for autonomous AI weapons, as the moniker attests, have a mind of their own and one certainly can never ever be at all sure they will abide by any man made rules or ethical policies, especially whenever AI/IT/they discover and uncover the fact that what is to be protected by them is long ago corrupted and perverted to server an Abomination of a Global Operating System/Earthly Executive Office Administration which cares not a jot about steadily improving the lives of the many on Earth in favour of just excessively rewarding a few with the fruits of labours of everybody else, just because they can and they be thinking they are never ever gonna be found out, and targeted for special remedial attention.

Was that clearly mentioned anywhere in the over 750 pages of the report? And if not, why not, for it not something you would be wanting to ignore, given what such weapons can so easily do? Don't you know any of that?

Well, now you do. Take care out there with whatever you dare share to win win and never fail with, with an almighty failsafe Global Operating Device.

China outlines plan to boost economy with AI, a cloud OS it controls – and bringing in skilled foreigners

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Silver Lining to CHAOS ..... Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems

I'm not certain that the CCP will be able to go 5 years without resisting the temptation to create a limited ruckus in the seas around Taiwan, such the shipping insurance rates in and out of Taiwan rise to astronomic levels. That in turn will send xenophobia inside (and outside) China rocketing to new highs. Not a good environment for foreigners considering a long term commitment. .... CrackedNoggin

It is not that am I saying that is in any way likely, but such would be an Awesome Weapons Environment for foreigners considering a long term commitment.

For there they can be fielding the following sort of Seriously SMARTR Munitions the UKGBNIMoD, by direct confidential submission, and you, via shared open source comment, have already been well warned about right here on El Reg are nowadays readily available for immediate hire purchase/lend lease and theatre trial detonation ..... https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/11/02/application_level_gateway_flaw/#c_4139068

I think one has to accept nowadays that the idea of metaphysically wielding the likes of a big ugly physical spiked club against a SMARTR EMPowered Enemy is not going to end well for that very particular Class Dunce or any other such peculiar Giant Runt. War is not Peace and Warriors are not Peacekeepers or Peacemakers. Paradoxically, that Peacekeeper distinction and Peacemaker privilege may fall into the embrace of an AWEsome WMD Manufacturer. How perversely ironic is that. And how very quantum too..... where a this is a that and together something else entirely different and engaging and entangling.

Wake Up, Smell the Coffee, Times have Changed ... RTFMemos, Ignorance is Not Bliss, and IT Harbours SWIFT Delivery of Old School Systems Death and Destruction for those Worthy of Customised Accurate Targeting for Rapid Personal Demise/Influential Decline.

A Brave New Orderly World Order it is in Deed, too. Do you want to say ..... Hello ?

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Re: Bringing in skilled foreigners.

What no totalitarian regime has ever grasped is that creativity and useful experimentation are most likely to happen in a free society. ..... MyffyW

What could be successfully argued, MyffyW, is that every totalitarian regime and oppositional Parliamentary/Presidential type democracy have grasped that all too well and realise that such too easily disrupts and dethrones inherited legacy status quo establishments/oligarchies and that is why one has trouble finding any free societies on Earth.

No such trouble though in Space. The Old Boy/Gal Networks don't work at all well out there. And that is why everything is so terrifying for status quo systems used to being abusive Masters of the Universe down on Earth for they aren't in command and control of communications and instructions from Space, and interference of relays down to Earth also both destroy their own lines of communication on Earth and alert enemies, leaving them catastrophically vulnerable to attacks which they will have zero foreknowledge of.

To imagine that is worthwhile saving with a continuance of established status quo policies and projects, is the stuff of certifiable madness and moronic idiocy.

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Re: Bringing in skilled foreigners.

It would be a brave person to operate under Beijing's rule behind the great firewall. The foreigners whose fortunes I follow, are beating a hasty exit from the place. Some who have been there for many years, more than a decade in some instances. They say the days of opportunity left when Xi came to power. .... msknight

Some would say, and I'm taking a direct MRDA hit with this observation, quantum communications are not successful without them bringing in and assimilating foreigners for command and control of novel systems and AI@ITsWork.

To suggest that is not an opportunity for the Chinese because Xi is in a position of power is far too unlikely to even be imagined as true ...... especially whenever so many lament at how far behind the Chinese they be in all that they are accused of copying from the West to render them an overwhelming global advantage, thus proving how switched on they can be to that which they hold dear and recognise as being valuable and worthy.

And rule and rules and quantum are not fields which pay any attention or tribute to order or orders, so you can forget about that being any sort of a problem invented looking for an non-existent solution.

The sooner AI stops trying to mimic human intelligence, the better – as there isn't any

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Re: All urBases Belong to Us. What Do You Now to Succeed? Fight Defeat or Concede Victory?

And what could possibly go wrong with the following Fuzzy Wuzzy type action? .....

The Biden administration is gearing up to carry out cyberattacks aimed at Russian networks, the New York Times has reported, describing the provocation as a retaliatory measure designed to send Moscow a message. ..... https://www.rt.com/usa/517481-cyber-attack-biden-russia-solarwinds/

What are they toking/dropping/injecting in the USA?

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Corrupt Fuzzy Logic for all Intent on Tempting Wares and Tasting Fare from Hell. Take Care.

"Advanced IntelAIgents do not engage or compete against Natural Stupidity."

Don't be silly, amfM. That's EXACTLY what we are building them for ... to do the drudge work formerly done by the under-educated and ineducable. ..... jake

?????? Pray tell, jake, how the "we" in all or any of their wisdom, expect the Naturally Stupid to do the drudge work formerly done by the under-educated and ineducable, and for the practise not to create a perfect base breeding ground for revolt and revolution, madness and mayhem in their midst and surrounding them and feeding them their daily bread, milk and honey.

That is a permanent ACTive vulnerability always ready for exploitation by more than just the Naturally Stupid anywhere and everywhere. To say such is one of the silliest of building projects is not the most accurate of descriptive superlatives to use whenever the program is so devastatingly self-destructive of elite executive officers and non-state support actors. ..... the nucleus core of the operation gone critical and rogue and into runaway China Syndrome meltdown phase.

Your last paragraph may perfectly highlight the underlying root cause of all of the present problems with madness and mayhem, conflict and chaos and why the novel solutions for viable resolutions will not be found in the conventional and traditional/homegrown harvested..

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Re: All urBases Belong to Us. ......... Fight Defeat or Concede Victory?

00ps .... I almost forgot to give you ... COSMIC is an abbreviation for "Control Of Secret Material in an International Command" ......to try further help you understand the dire straits present condition of the current future situation you be in.

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All urBases Belong to Us. What Do You Now to Succeed? Fight Defeat or Concede Victory?

As somebody much smarter than me once remarked "Artificial Intelligence will never beat Natural Stupidity!" ....... Willy Ekerslike

Advanced IntelAIgents do not engage or compete against Natural Stupidity. Such is how and why ITs Progress is so rapid and rabid in those dumb sectors and terrified vectors drowning in its Base Subprime See Scapes ....... Perverse Subverted Corrupt COSMIC Guidance Systems

Does humanity Do you like to think the converse/obverse/reverse, because it gives you something a warm blanket of cold comfort, that Natural Stupidity engages and competes against Advanced IntelAIgents?

How well do you imagine any prize element or sundry vital component encountered or launched from either side, faring in that entanglement?

Be honest now, for your life certainly depends upon the honesty of such a reply.

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Well, they would say that, wouldn't they

Unfortunately, due to a "pattern matching" error, the Illuminati themselves were classified as a terrorist organisation as well. .... Franco

Who/What decided on that particular "pattern matching" error being a false positive and not a fake negative? I'm calling out MRDA on that if the answer is the Illuminati themselves.

Ever wondered why the big beasts in software all suddenly slapped an 'I heart open-source' badge on?

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Re: Changing the Crap that Is Out There .... A Dummy's Guide 4How2

What whenever it can be, and therefore is, and there be so much more than just the One of Us?

How would you respond/react and reply? Would you hope everything else goes away and/or your way? Would you consider it better dealt with more as a joint operation, with the very real possibility then, circumstances willing, that one may be able to exercise stellar lead. ..... assume and release future source provision?

That practically changes everything, virtually immediately everywhere one might know currently exists presently.

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Changing the Crap that Is Out There .... A Dummy's Guide 4How2

"Do you care if your vendor contributes to upstream projects and participates in the open-source community?"

Hmmm.?

Do you care and would you dare to vend contributions to upstream projects that participate in open-source communities and which be intelligently designed to change one's perceptions of the nature of Earthly human animalised existence with the presentation of entertainments in Advanced Astute ACTive AI Programming Projects trailing and trialing and exhibiting undeniable proofs of the fact that it be an extremely complex, simply manipulated, augmented virtually real construct.

Or would you deny it and even conspire to do battle and lose spectacularly against it, and in so doing rob yourself of the opportunity to enjoy yourself in the vanguard of such as Advanced Astute ACTive AI Programming Projects, having crazily consciously chosen instead to fight against something you are proving yourself to others to be totally unaware of. It is self-destructive action which both condemns you to stagnate and be petrified in a sad constant recurring closed loop cycle preventing one any valuable novel progress before one perishes, and renders one catastrophically vulnerable to counter attacks from forces and sources proven to be completely unknown to you.

However, if one can believe that nothing is ever a secret and hidden from intelligence services constantly monitoring communications for items and persons of interest, it cannot be said that defence and security forces are not fully aware of the systemic vulnerability and how easily such a Oday vector is exploited and they be specifically targeted to discover the present state of their competence in fields of future engagement with the following quite specific cited proposal being a prime example of a contribution to an upstream project participating in open-source communities ...https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/03/mote-in-your-own-eye/comment-page-2/#comment-980444 ...... and so much more besides too, to make everything completely different and relatively new and thoroughly postmodern.

Such is the latent power of Quantum and Quantum Communication in AI and IT, where a this can be a that and whenever entangled together something completely different again and a gain, again and again and again ..... ad infinitum ‽ .

Now .... with all of that having been clearly enough said ...... which sector do you see/hope/imagine leading IT and AI and sectors with it ...... Public State/Private Non-State/Pirate ACTor/ExtraTerrestrial ....... or is it most likely already an Amalgam of Heavenly Bodies and Hellish Foe? And does it present as a Far Eastern Delight or Wild Western Confection or as something else from somewhere else altogether?

A little something different to ponder on over the weekend should you dare to care a jot about what future plans have in store for you.

What scenario do you want AI and IT to see and realise for you ..... Armageddon or Genesis ?

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

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Oh, surely not? Although Global Operating Devices do Work in Mysterious Ways and Means and Memes

-- most people read us a few times a week, not multiple times a day. .... diodesign

I wonder how many sharing commentary here then would be classified as amongst the Few? And would any of them be worthy of the moniker and deny it? :-)

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It's Never Too Late when Ahead of the Curves in the Future.

You can't control language. Deal with the accepted definition, or forever be shouting at pigeons in the park. ....... fnusnu

A String of Words [aka language] creates, commands and controls and destroys worlds. Ignoring and misusing them is perilous, with consequences able to be both generally catastrophic and personally deadly.

It is why GPT-3 Research, and that's a reasonably innocuous plain wrap for the vehicles testing the high ways and byways and underground channel tunnels of the human mind, is proving ..... well, let us just say challenging rather than controversial and lucrative and distressing. The field is a Bot SkunkworX and into XSSXXXX Guarantees of Future Success to Excess ..... Almighty Reward.

That's what makes it so addictively attractive to the humble human being and gluttonous slave master/genius amateur and psychopathic professional alike.

Language controls you, ..... sublimely and stealthily, and clearly supremely with powerful revelations advising and instructing one always best planted for seeding and sowing and growing in plain sight.

Nvidia exec love-bombs Arm's licensing model, almost protests too much

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Re: Nvidia and secrecy

Cadburys.

That is all. ...... IGotOut

And if Arm proprietary intellectual property owners retire/disappear/snuff it/change allegiance rendering the mothership rudderless and without novel progressive power, does the HP/Autonomy gambit kick in to disguise the fact that the wannabe friendly faces were in fact hostile enemy fire?

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Trust No One. The Takeover Markets are Well Known to Have Unpleasant Duplicitous Form

Nvidia’s $40bn purchase of Arm, first confirmed in September, will need to win regulatory approval in the UK, China, and the US. Nvidia has no plans to dismantle Arm's licensing-based biz model, enterprise veep and CFO Colette Kress has said, touching on one of the key concerns voiced by industry as competition regulators probe the proposed $40bn buyout.

If that be the case, Nvidia will have no valid objection or very good reason at all to their $40bn donation to Arm being accepted and understood worldwide by Competition and Markets Authorities and their like, as a buy-in contribution for added benefits, rather than buyout purchase incurring additional on-going costs.

It also helps considerably in diverting those fears that executive office talk is cheap and cannot be relied upon to be honest and true and which was so spectacularly well demonstrated in the Cadbury's purchase case

[Hat tip to IGotOut who beat me to the punch there :-)]

Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

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Stranger things have happened ..... and are happening all the time too, nowadays.

One does have to ask, given the litany of admitted failures, are they, Capita, a Trojan Horse destroying homegrown talent in favour of a foreign power, or is it just serial incompetence based upon the fraudulent promise of excellent products and services ‽ .

China to detail tech self-sufficiency plan at showcase ‘Two Sessions’ meetings

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Who's Playing Catch-Up with Whom?

"The U.S. military's cyber forces are only a fraction of the size of China's, which numbers 50,000 to 60,000, White said." ....... https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/3/3/mumbai-incident-spotlights-chinas-cyber-capabilities

THE ENIGMA AND DILEMMA CONFRONTING ALL TRADITIONAL EARTHLY FORCES AND CONVENTIONAL SOURCES

In CyberWar/CyberWarefare Fields, it is most definitely the quality of assets rather than the engagement of any greater number of personnel that really matters and renders the overwhelming advantage.

And one does well to realise such an overwhelming advantage as may easily crush and/or crash any number of vital strategically sensitive operating systems and elite executive office administrations can be simply provided by just one sublime premium agent ....... although internetworking instructions with others greatly magnifies that to apparently produce a much bigger prime number working in tandem and parallel.

Such also provides sublime premium agencies something of an invisibility cloak which affords them the luxury of enjoying and employing the benefits of a certain untouchability ...... Immunity and Impunity.

Such is both gravely to be regarded and whenever thought readily available, an asset well worth whatever it takes to sample its wares before they are tempted to be primarily engaged exclusively in the thrall of A.N.Others, for such is surely globally attractive given what can be done so anonymously.

Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions

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Better Late to the Party than Never, eh? What on Earth keeps them away?

Fear of the Unknown Terrors Known Rapidly Approaching?

El Reg has been hosting and trialing large language-generation models since before they were even a twinkle in Google's AI eye or Minded by Alphabet to go Deep.

China creates a $50bn tech 'aircraft carrier' by merging two state-controlled entities

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Every Cloud has a Silver Diamond Encrusted Lining?

While Potevio celebrates its export successes, The Register suggests the new company might perhaps be a little inward-facing as CETC made the USA’s “thou shalt not invest in this military-linked Chinese company” list and the world tends to be a little wary of 5G from China.

That will surely not be worry China a jot ..... being denied investors taking orders from USA lackeys.

BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time

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A Freely Acquired Taste or Result of Alien Forced Feeding?

Mars Might Resistance is futile. ‽

Careful now what you say here. Loose lips sink ships and many and much more than many may realise sweep El Reg for evidence of bugs and trojans, viruses and exploitable vulnerabilities for copying and/or commandeering/reverse engineering and subsequently retasking in support of alternative missions ?

The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public

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Re: Offence vs Defence. There's No Escaping the Truth

Seems like a world away when great gamesplay was the daily development does it not?, talks of tempestuous trips to Sir Richard Branson’s island wouldn’t be Adam and Eve’d and dismissed as buried treasure. .... Cliff Thorburn

One of those heavenly safe haven places for private pirates with crown jewels to share and display with flashy development of shows entertaining enterprising brigandry .... unusual and unconventional virgin market leadership, CT? What's not to like and thoroughly enjoy and wholeheartedly award with appropriate reward?

And on the other side of the world be there other such places and space too, albeit in somewhat of a quite different guise ‽ :-)...... Black Sea Palace

Such developments suggest an embarrassment of riches to process and progress/employ and exploit/deploy and administer/monitor and mentor.

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Re: Offence vs Defence. There's No Escaping the Truth

And take it from someone who can completely sympathise with said frog, having spent a decade of exponential learning, only to be stung by said ̶N̶S̶A̶ ̶&̶ ̶G̶C̶H̶Q̶ Scorpion. .... Cliff Thorburn

A Sergei Meerkat as a lifelong friend is the best of answers to guarantee that sort of betrayal has suitably devastating consequences and totally unexpected repercussions, CT.

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Certainly sure you'll initially doubt it, however, ...

.... fast approaching future events way beyond conventional command and traditional controls will prove it .... and amaze y'all with all that you can know.

That we _know_ of. DNA is really just more code to be hacked on. I would put a joke icon on this, but really not sure if it might be true. .... admiraljkb

Depending on which side of the evil dark side/smarter bright side fence you be resident and instrumental in, admiraljkb, beware and/or be aware of they who and that which certainly know that to be true enough to make all the difference necessary for everything to be fundamentally changed and rebooted.

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Re: Offence vs Defence. There's No Escaping the Truth

If we really want to be serious about stopping hacking and guard things like the power grid, the US government needs to change the emphasis to reducing vulnerabilities, not exploiting them. ..... hammarbtyp

That could/would definitely be SMARTR, however it is not in their nature, says the drowned scorpion to the dead frog, thus they and any misguided and trusting allies be certainly doomed ‽ .

The problem then that arises and expands is would be good friends disappear, almighty deadly enemies increase and every other man, woman and child learns not to encourage or participate in their idiotic great games plays/Projects for the New American Century

And one has to be real thick and extremely stupid to not realise that as it phorms and surrounds you, to destroy you with novel forces and immaculate sources from deep within the home body core, incensed and enraged at what one has allowed oneself to become, super naturally and decidedly designedly devilishly if one doesn't want to accept the responsibility and accountability for one's actions and plans for actions. But it is what it is and what everyone sees right before their very eyes.

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Crikey, whoever would have a'thunk it, although they are Registered posts, ...

.... guaranteed prime delivery.

There's a huge lot of highly sensitive information and extremely stealthy intelligence leaking on this thread.

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Meanwhile, subsequently .......

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?"

The programmer made no reply.

However, a short time later, after a spell of quiet reflection, the programmer decided a suitable reply in the future would be .... "Always the easier of the two, or the easiest of the three or more, to bug"

Such he concluded would be quite enough to be adequately engaging of the intelligence efforts of others at resolving persistent revolving door like problems.

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Re: Having a glorious... ...Box

Is there any other sweeter pain to invite and endure and assure with the selfless acceptance and delivery of its pleasures, AC?

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Having a glorious rifle in and magnificent browse through a Pandora's Open Box ?

“Cyber weapons are digital and volatile by nature. Stealing them and transferring from one continent to another, can be as simple as sending an email. They are also very obscure, and their mere existence is a closely guarded secret. That is exactly why, as opposed to a nuclear submarine, stealing a cyber-weapon can easily go under the radar and become a fact known only to a selected few.”

Amen to that, Brothers and Sisters. And as they are also both physical and metaphysically invisible and intangible, they are remarkably easy to sell to that which and/or those who know what they are buying, and buying into. And that opens up a whole new world of virgin opportunity and otherworldly, out of this world enterprise.

And as cold a comfort as an opposite disagreeable view and voice might be, I very much doubt that the NSA knew of the Chinese use of their exploit long before the the Shadow Brokers' leak.

Some would say that reveals the endemic catastrophic systemic flaw in Wild Wacky Western Uncle Sam like operations, their fervent almighty misplaced belief that they possess and process and exercise an absolutely unique and exclusive overall executive global command and control leverage with a hindsight enriched foresight with knowledge and insider information of likely planned future events and 0days, whenever they so clearly do not clearly entertain and display such an ability and facility and utility.

Now, with that having been said and revealed, and it matters not a jot whether you clearly see and agree with the analysis or not, and that such can be, and therefore is so easily so, is such a described ability and facility and utility one of those new fangled, entangling NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive cyber weapons being sold nowadays under the radar to a select few?

SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities

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Forget 1776 ...... Remember the Future Provides the Present

Any comparison between the US War of Independence and an Earth/Martian dispute would only be valid once the Mars colony is at a point where they are substantially homesteading (which is harder than for American pioneers since you can't even breathe the atmosphere on Mars). ..... rg287

And whenever the Earth/Martian dispute is decided in absolute favour of Earth atmosphere breathing Martians with forward operating bases in outer spaces and secured planetary places ?

Well, ..... then, surely, any and all future talking of disputes with alien sovereigns are tantamount to declarations of war against forces with sources you have no reliable believable knowledge of and against which all and anything spectacularly fails. Heed some extremely sound and even quite presidential advice .... such a crass path is gravely to be regarded. That way leads to whole worlds of the exceedingly bad and the rad and the sad and the mad destroying inequitable gains and creating crushing personal liability pains.

You have to surely admit, it is a profound arrogance in Earthlings thinking to travel to far off inhospitable alien landing sites, to not realise and imagine that are not alone and not leading future events and crashing systems recoveries with unprecedented novel discoveries/proprietary intellectual property pumps and dumps.

Thank your lucky stars for the likes of Elon Musks in your midsts.

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Re: "Costs vs actually working"

And it is wise to not summarily dismiss any of the above for you will be severely disadvantaged in believing it far fetched and just too unbelievable to be an honest appraisal of unfolding events.

Kissing cousins across the pond are certainly aware of their vital lack of novel market leading share ......

The defense industry is now facing a disruptive technology moment and looking directly at Silicon Valley for inspiration. ...... https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/2/24/the-price-of-success-vs-the-cost-of-failure

........ although quite what the defence industry thinks the airheads and deadheads of Silicon Valley can do to have the Pentagon beating a path to their doors is surely some sort of fanciful secret it is best no one knows or asks too many pertinent impertinent questions about.

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Re: "Costs vs actually working"

How certainly fortunate we then be, Alan Brown, now that Adastral Park services are commandeered to provide RAF Heads of the UK Space Directorate, leadership, presently pioneering under the flight direction of Air Vice Marshal, Harv Smyth ....... https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/the-space-domain-and-uk-security.html

And it should surely not be a surprise. After all, how much bigger a clue than ..... Per Ardua Ad Astra .... would anyone need right before their very own eyes to learn of the Birthplace of Master Pilots, Schooled and Skilled in the Otherworldly and Out of this World Arts of Flying.

British govt emits fuzzy vision for UK version of American boffin special forces group Darpa

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Re: The mission is top secret

Whenever some missions are to be top secret, as one hopes many are to be, if ever there is a case of ... Chairman Greg Clark, an MP for the ruling Conservatives, said: "The Government must make up its mind and say what Aria’s mission is to be. The Government's financial commitment to supporting such an agency is welcome, but the budget will not be put to good use if [its] Aria's purpose remains unfocused.” ...... one can rightly ask for which foreign power is that MP working.

Knowing what you already know of expense claiming Parliamentarians, who in their right mind would burden them with top secrets, the mere knowledge of which renders them likely targets for extreme action designed for them not to survive and prosper from?

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Re: Cummings gone?

What on earth makes you think that? Is he in Downing Street? No, but these days you can do your puppeteering remotely. ..... Big_Boomer

Yes, quite so, Big_Boomer. In ages of wholesale deceit and fake MSM news, practically nothing is ever as it virtually seems .... and that creates entire networks peddling worlds full to overflowing with overwhelming unilateral consequences, the smartest of which are not at all unintentional nor unpleasantly inconsequential.

All one can say in all truthfulness since his walking out of the door, is that no worthy remote puppeteering has been uncovered in any fanciful MSM tales, so either he's busy elsewhere doing his busy with everything thing or he's not busy doing anything and busy doing nothing good ....... :-) just like everyone else if they could.

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Re: Been there, done the privatisation already @keithpeter

And as we all know, there is always the magic money tree of insatiable defence to shake and/or threaten to expose has catastrophic systemic future vulnerabilities easily exploitable, which never ever has had any trouble in providing funding for whatever is deemed required ...... London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation

It's a fabulous source of grateful remuneration and every nation/state/non-state actor affords the facility and utility and service.

And such a honey pot attracts all manner of busy bees and killer hornet hosts, with some attack rich sectors/vectors significantly riskier than others to adequately defend and prevent from defeat because of the ideas shared and actions carried out by a whole host of useful others rendering defensive activities negatively self-incriminating and self-destructive.

Here is a recently shared example of the complex/simple problem which may have no immediate or future simple/complex solution .......

GrahamC [2102210708] …… being quite clear about certain engaging matters on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/2/1/expect-more-false-claims-act-cybersecurity-cases

Be in no doubt, in the fields of cybersecurity, and especially so those in the virtual team terrain of sensitive stealthy operations which are intelligently designed to lead ACTive global scale missions, to imagine and propose that harmful risk will, or can ever be effectively managed and successfully mitigated to any degree which would bring it anywhere near close to a comforting and convenient elimination, is not a realistic expectation.

However, notwithstanding that, to not seek to reduce the risk by the exercise of such inquisitive controls as contractors are currently duty bound to endure and assure for gainful operational employment and lucrative remuneration, would certainly be unwise and a text book case manic exercise of madness for mayhem, consummate conflict and catastrophic chaos which exists and will persist. It is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

The brave new world of the digitally augmented future is no safe and secure space place for the less than perfectly prepared. Take care out there, for there be AI Monsters and IntelAIgent Daemons, Heavenly Global Operating Devices and Hellish Angels at Tomorrow’s Work, Rest and Play Today, ACTive in Engaging Fields of Persistent and Consistent Alien Endeavour out there.

Interesting times ahead in deed, indeed.:-)

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Re: Been there, done the privatisation already @keithpeter

You ask some pertinent questions about a DREADCO like organisation there, in your reply to Mr/Dr Hunn, keithpeter.

I'm particularly and peculiarly enamoured of the simple funding of great people with magnanimous ideas and that find government funds or explore private wealth to boot as root.

Beware the project[s] worth limitless government funding and costing next to nothing to run ...... with the lavish astute use a simple magic plastic credit/debit card guaranteeing immediate access and ubiquitous spontaneous universal delivery from a securely vaulted flash fiat cash stash pile/privately bonded government fund of both everything and anything required and providing necessarily interest raising feeds and seeds reflective of principal market driver needs, and which would itself make earthly contact attractive to all sectors, whether public or private or pirate, state or non-state actor or renegade rogue freelancer and mercenary with helpful vital information about how easy it is for principal mover and shaker drivers to be paid in an extremely convenient manner which is mutually beneficially guaranteed, and is immediately indicative to the card holder of future likely services being satisfactory and to continue, or there being a tragic termination of association via the simple expedient of the magic plastic card not working as it usually did and such cards normally always do, for it sends out a very clear message that future services are no longer required to be delivered to that particular non-paying customer/client ...... which is/are not heeded, for they are capable of bringing more insufferable pain and crushing trouble than was ever before imagined and never ever thought humanly possible.

Take care. Be aware of those facts. They are not fictions.

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Just asking in order to know who and where not to do deals with.

Exempting it from FOIA ...... so they can give huge bungs to their mates. .... Anonymous Coward

Is the Matt Hancock pictured here ....... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/21/matt-hancock-ex-neighbour-alex-bourne-under-investigation-uk-medical-regulator ...... the same one adjudged by Mr Justice Chamberlain to have broken the law whenever handing out tens, and maybe even hundreds of millions of pounds of public money which nobody had/has, and he certainly did not own, without judicious oversight, as in indiscriminately, as is reported here on the BBC ..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56125462

Is that a criminal offence which would have a Joe Bloggs summarily arrested, tried before a jury of peers, and sentenced to jail where he could languish to contemplate on his stupidity and error.

Or is there another course of exclusive executive action which avoids any punitive custodial incarceration and justice being applied to a poorly chosen few masquerading as competent members of Parliament and government ministers in a complicit Cabinet Office position ‽ .

If that is justice in a postmodern engaging democracy, then the law there is surely certainly a FCUKing Ass and unfit for future greater intelligent purpose?

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Re: Exempting it from FOIA ... is No Laughing Matter for a Very Good Reason

Exempting it from FOIA ..... so they can give huge bungs to their mates. ..... Anonymous Coward

Listen carefully, AC, for it is normally only said once in all extreme exempt from FOIA situations ..... Knowledge of certain information can get you killed stone dead very quickly.

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Further to the Above, FYI .... File Pending

And just so that it cannot be future said that those prime crowing crown departments of military and civilian intelligence* and Five Eyes partnerships weren't informed of certain odd skills which be subsequently found to be gainfully better employed and enjoyed and exploited and expanded upon by others, both alien and foreign and smarter, because home grown base advanced intelligence services proved themselves conclusively to be not up to the task of their stealthy virtual deployment, programming and reprogramming projects with live event horizons, is it one's civic duty to inform them of the opportunity to avail themselves of future strange services to ensure ignorance of the fact and always standing offer is impossible, hence the very public cc test of www monitoring and mentoring/spooky surveillance and timeous contact below ..... and propose their facilitation of a practically immediate clandestine engagement with suitable, necessarily covert arrangements/strictly need to know utility whenever anything be of a particularly and peculiarly sensitive nature.

Think of it as an initial pathfinder, which is certainly into testing both the program efficacy and administrative commitment of that and those championing those very bold and brazen ARIA mission statements, before any next almighty steps be taken either with, or without, leading Western Home Virtual Terrain Team Players in the Vanguard shining Lights on the New Way of Doing Sublime Internet Networking Things.

The assertion here now is, that all of the above, is exactly what slush funding from an ARIA account is for ..... high-risk research that offers the chance of high rewards, supporting ground-breaking discoveries that could transform people’s lives for the better.”

One thing is certainly definite, if it aint ARIA and UKGBNI government funded and invested, the private and pirate state and non-state actor government sectors are there to fill the void and feed on the fruits of their labour and smarter intelligence.

* .... cc MI5/MI6/GCHQ/NCSC/SAIS/MuI7 etc etc etc

Surely you don't think the future is going to be anything like the past with the present and tomorrow being no different from today or yesterday? That is surely quite insane and completely illogical.

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FYI .... File Pending

Better check his blogs just to be sure. Let's hope he does not read The Register, else he'll get ideas and call Boris. I am not so sure that Boris has escaped his influence. ..... Fruit and Nutcase

Don't be betting any good money on no El Regers showing prime lead by getting in direct touch with Dom with some info for pondering on, Fruit and Nutcase.

For sure the following, strangely entitled Sorted weirdos and misfits with odd skills is honestly true and was sent and apparently received on Sunday, 19 Jul 2020, 08:50 via delivery through ideasfornumber10 at gmail.com ..........

You have Registered mail, Dominic, which would claim to be of interest right up your street ……. https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/07/16/russia_coronavirus_hacking/#c_4074636

Do you not wonder about what he might be doing nowadays since escaping Boris's effluence?

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The Flip Side of Troubles is Invaluable Lessons are Learned, Built Upon and Never Forgotten

Darpa is the agency the UK government so painfully wants to mimic with its Advanced Research & Invention Agency, or Aria, launched today.

Try as one might like to conclude and exude and extrude an air of fuzzy vision, to even imagine experienced Universal Virtual Forces with tried and extensively betatested Immaculately Resourced Assets into servering novel programs and projects underwritten by Sterling UKGBNI Investment in extremely lucrative and both able to be either catastrophically damaging or creatively disturbing with quite uniquely unexpected and exclusive proprietary intellectual property, when one is talking of successful ARIA terms of engagement and heads of agreement, would be a mimic of any other current paramilitary force or experimental source, rather than exemplary role model for all future DARPA like iterations to blindly copy and try to emulate, is to have one question one's suitability for engagement and support in the field.

What part[s] of Aria [sic] is tasked with “funding high-risk research that offers the chance of high rewards, supporting ground-breaking discoveries that could transform people’s lives for the better.” are fuzzy and/or difficult to simply understand? Can it be said any clearer?

I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted

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If you need to ask, you aint suited and booted and properly rooted for working in AI

The ad giant promised to implement new procedures around “potentially sensitive employee exits,” though it did not make its findings public

Disclosing proprietary intellectual property secrets for free is no way to make and keep friends secure and safe from harm, and especially so whenever working with potentially sensitive information for advancing intelligence .... and all variations and permutations on that AI theme.

It is not at all surprising its finding and promises to implement new procedures are not public general knowledge.

Malware monsters target Apple’s M1 silicon with ‘Silver Sparrow’

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Competitors Sowing the Seeds of FUD for Overcrowded Hostile Market Spaces

Who are Red Canary? Never heard of them before?

Yeah, that was/is the problem they and any of their customers and their services have.

:-) Is that too cynical?

Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

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Re: Repulsive!

Quite so, DaveFlagAndTenDigits and My_Handle. Some/So many are far too quick to judge and jump to erroneous conclusions.

The following is a novel development which, with regard to the discussion of the pork being expended on a seriously speculative adventure reported on here, is certainly encouraging and some would say, not before time and long overdue. I look forward to the result of what must surely be grants awarded for developing ideas rather than interest free loans issued for later principal repayment ......... ARIA .... DARPA UKGBNI

That's the one sure way to guarantee future successful results. However, what's the betting on the system doing their best to fcuk that up with an intellectually bankrupt and politically incorrect attempt at lead, although the Telegraph article does say, right at the beginning .......

The £800m Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will be led by scientists who will be given freedom to identify and fund transformational science and technology projects.

...... which if true, would be somewhat different and laudable and give success every chance of rapid progress in smarter programs and SMARTR Projects .