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Russia strikes US backed targets in Syria, forcing the US government to clearly admit regime change, not fighting ISIS is their real goal & we’ll examine the fascinating reaction western media is having to Russia’s involvement in Syria.

Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is reached, we’ll discuss what comes next & we end with a space age story.

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China Loves to Cyber | Unfilter 52 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/37971/china-loves-to-cyber-unfilter-52/ Wed, 29 May 2013 21:23:55 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=37971 Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of major U.S. weapons systems, a new report claims. Plus a few questions about the timing of the announcement.

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Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of major U.S. weapons systems, a new report claimed on Monday. But we have a few questions about the timing of this announcement, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

And the “March Against Monsanto” protests were held in 52 countries and 436 cities around the world protesting the GMO giant and it’s genetically modified seeds. We’ll dig into the movement’s real goals and see if it has any chance of making a difference.

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Worldwide Monsanto Protests

The worldwide March Against Monsanto this past Saturday was no mere political demonstration. Rather, it was a worldwide mobilization against corporate greed, the assault on our health and environment, and the oppression of small farmers.

French scientists have revealed that rats fed on GMO corn sold by American firm Monsanto, suffered tumors and other complications including kidney and liver damage. When testing the firm’s top brand weed killer the rats showed similar symptoms.

The French government has asked its health and safety agency to assess the study and had also sent it to the European Union’s food safety agency, Reuters reports.

Based on the conclusion…, the government will ask the European authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal health, measures that could go as far as an emergency suspension of imports of NK603 maize in the European Union,” the French health, environment and farm ministries said in a joint statement.

Researchers from the University of Caen found that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 – a seed variety made tolerant to amounts of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller – or given water mixed with the product, at levels permitted in the United States – died earlier than those on a standard diet.

The research conducted by Gilles-Eric Seralini and his colleagues, said the rats suffered mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and kidney damage. The study was published in the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology and presented at a news conference in London.

Fifty percent of male and 70 percent of female rats died prematurely, compared with only 30 percent and 20 percent in the control group, said the researchers.


China’s Cyber Heist

Chinese hackers have gained access to designs of more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems, a U.S. report said on Monday, as Australian media said Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints for Australia’s new spy headquarters.

Citing a report prepared for the Defense Department by the Defense Science Board, the Washington Post said the compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, as well as missile defenses vital for Europe, Asia and the Gulf.

Among the weapons listed in the report were the advanced Patriot missile system, the Navy’s Aegis ballistic missile defense systems, the F/A–18 fighter jet, the V–22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the F–35 Joint Strike Fighter


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Syria: The Proxy War

The EU’s move, which the Russian diplomat branded as an “example
of double standards”, opens the door for Britain and France to
supply weapons to Syrian rebels fighting the regime of President
Bashar Assad.

Criticizing Europe’s decision to open the way for potential arms shipments to Syrian
rebels, Russia insists that its own sale of arms to the Syrian
government helps the international effort to end the
two-year-long conflict, the diplomat added. He was referring to
the delivery of the advanced S–300 long-range air defense
systems, which Russia is carrying out under a contract signed
with Syria several years ago.

“Those systems by definition cannot be used by militant groups
on the battlefield,”
Ryabkov said. “We consider this
delivery a factor of stabilization. We believe that moves like
this one to a great degree restrain some hotheads from escalating
the conflict to the international scale, from involving external
forces.”

The S–300 is a series of Russian long-range
surface-to-air missile systems designed to intercept
ballistic missiles, regarded as the most potent weaponry of
its class. The missiles are capable of engaging aerial
targets as far away as 200km, depending on the version used.

However, Russia has neither confirmed, nor denied “the status of
those shipments.”

The S–300, one of the world’s most advanced air defense systems, could make it harder for foreign forces to carry out airstrikes inside Syria, as Israel has done this year, or to impose a no-fly zone, as some members of Congress have called for.

The move is Russia’s biggest and most public step so far to bolster the government of Syria’s beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad, its longtime ally. Rybakov made no attempt to hide the Kremlin’s intention to prevent outside forces from tipping the scales in the long and bloody civil war.

“We believe such steps are to a great extent restraining some ‘hot heads’ from considering scenarios in which the conflict may assume an international scale with the participation of outside forces,” he said, according to RIA Novosti.

Israeli defence minister: "At this stage I can’t say there is an escalation. The shipments have not been sent on their way yet. And I hope that they will not be sent.

“But if, by misfortune, they arrive in Syria, we will know what to do.”

Yaalon’s comments were made before Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, ordered his cabinet to stay silent on the issue, according to public radio.

Despite Israel’s protests, the S–300 system will not be a large hurdle for that country’s advanced air force. The system can be easily spotted because it sends out a distinctive signal, and Israel may have already tested its own jets against such a system while working with Greece.

Top-level Israeli intelligence figures flew into Moscow on Tuesday night in a last-ditch attempt to talk the Kremlin out of supplying sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to the Assad regime, which once installed in Syria would have the range and power to target civilian and military aircraft over Tel Aviv.

Israeli diplomats will continue to work both privately and publicly to prevent the transfer until the shipment sails, but officials attempted to lower the diplomatic temperature, insisting Israel had no intention of fighting Russia on the issue.

Israel has read Moscow’s insistence on pursuing its deal to supply Damascus with the powerful missile systems as part of a “cold war” power struggle between the US and Russia playing out in the theatre of the Syrian civil war in which it wants no part.

Officials from the Obama administration have revealed that the White House asked the Pentagon to outline plans for a military no-fly zone over Syria, continuing strategy discussions that have been ongoing for more than a year.

If enacted, the no-fly zone would be enforced by the US military
with help from France, Great Britain and other allies.

“McCain said a realistic plan for a
no-fly zone would include hundreds of planes, and would be most
effective if it included destroying Syrian airplanes on runways, bombing
those runways, and moving U.S. Patriot missile batteries in Turkey
close to the border so they could protect airspace inside northern
Syria,”


Why Are Police So Desperate to Throw Kids in Jail

“Our son went to school the morning of Dec. 11 and he didn’t show up at home after school, because he was arrested in his classroom,” Snodgrass said. “Police went into his classroom armed, and handcuffed our son. We were not notified by anyone, and he was held for two days, and we were not able to see him,” a

Before Colorado passed Medical Marijuana legislation laws the number of kids treated for marijuana exposure was nil. Whereas in the cases examined after, there were 14 cases, out of which eight of those came directly from consuming marijuana food products.

From 2000 to 2009, the number of children aged 15 to 19 who died from poisoning increased by 91 percent, the CDC says.

Childhood death from poisoning rose 80 percent over the 10-year time period, owing largely to the huge increase in such deaths among children aged 15 to 19. Prescription drug abuse is to blame, according to the CDC.

Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found.

Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Dick’s War | Unfilter 42 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/33946/dicks-war-unfilter-42/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:31:46 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=33946 Armed with a new study, and a revealing documentary of Dick Cheney we’ll look back at the scandals and lies that led the the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Its been 10 years since the invasion of Iraq, armed with a new study, and a revealing documentary of Dick Cheney we’ll look back at the scandals and lies that led the the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

We’ll look back at the individuals, the scandals, and the lies that led the United Stated into the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Plus why you should care about the outrageous situation in Cyprus, the good news for bitcoin investors, details South Korea’s purported Cyber attack, your feedback, and much much more.

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Cybersecurity Maintains the Headlines

Kristie Lu Stout talks to Seoul resident and KBS employee Luke Cleary about the massive computer outage in South Korea

Mr. Lew pressed his Chinese counterparts on what is a new agenda item: U.S. claims that Chinese state-sponsored entities are hacking into the computer systems of U.S. companies to steal corporate secrets.


Koch Brothers Mulling L.A. Times Bid, other Tribune newspapers

Charles and David Koch, two of the world’s richest men, are interested in Tribune’s newspaper assets, which include the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, according to sources familiar with situation.


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Iraq 10 years Later

Stunning new statistics from the Watson Institute at Brown University’s ‘Costs of War’ report show that the decade-long War in Iraq has resulted in at least 189,000 deaths and cost more than $2 trillion. Expenses, including interest, could top $6 trillion through 2053.

The 10-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq marks a striking failure of accountability on the part of the United States, the United Kingdom and Iraq itself, Human Rights Watch said today.

After the film’s whirlwind exploration of Cheney’s 40 long years of public service, what lingers in the air is this same spooky realization that despite everything – the Iraq War, the absence of WMD’s, the warrantless surveillance, the discoveries at Abu Ghraib – Cheney regrets nothing. “If I had to do it over again,” Cheney says at the end of the film. “I’d do it over in a minute.”

Dick Cheney, in a 1994 interview, lists countless reasons for America not to have invaded Baghdad. Funny how every reason still bears heavy relevance to our position there now.


Cyprus’ Bad Week

That panic forced Cyprus to declare a bank holiday. Then it killed the plan to tax bank deposits, with parliament voting it down. Global stock markets, which had dipped on the initial news of the bailout plan, leveled out as if the whole thing was a false alarm.

At first blush, it seems only fair that the Russians pony up. After all, the tens of billions of euros that Russians have parked in Cypriot bank accounts helped trigger the island’s financial crisis. And Moscow protested loudly when some European leaders wanted to levy stiff taxes on Cypriot bank accounts, a plan that now has been scuppered. Cyprus now is almost €6 billion ($7.7 billion) short of the money it needs to cut a deal with the so-called troika of European creditors and the International Monetary Fund.

But counting on aid from Russia is a bad idea for Cyprus—and for the rest of Europe. Cyprus has already gotten a €2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) loan from Moscow, and it can’t borrow more without greatly increasing its debt ceiling, something the troika won’t permit. Instead of offering a loan, Russia might ask for rights to natural gas fields in the Mediterranean south of Cyprus. Europe already depends heavily on Russia for natural gas, and extending Russia’s control over future supplies would almost certainly boost gas prices across the region, Athanios Orphanides, a former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, told Bloomberg Television this morning. “It would be a huge economic cost,” he said.

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Bitcoin BOOMS this Week

One of the side effects of the Eurozone crisis could be that some people turn to the deregulated, decentralised currency when they otherwise may not have even considered it. The events in Cyprus this past week – where it looked like the government, in desperate need of money, had planned to impose a levy on savings – seemed to have coincided with a slight spike in downloads of Bitcoin mobile apps in Spain, a country with its own wobbly economic situation.

  • Al Gore stirs a rally on Twitter after comments at PYMNTS Innovation Project 2013.

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Al Gore brilliant on virtual currencies “what could go wrong?” Also impressed that he can speak intelligently about Bitcoin. #ip2013

Al Gore: “Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized…. especially as it applies to virtual currencies”.


U.N. investigator: U.S. drone strikes violate Pakistan sovereignty

After days of meeting with Pakistani officials, the United Nations official investigating Washington’s global campaign of drone strikes attacked the legal and strategic basis for the robotic war in its biggest battlefield. And he raised doubts over whether Americans operating the drones can actually distinguish terrorists from average Pakistanis.

+ Not about Changing US Policy

Though Emmerson’s findings likely won’t change U.S. policy, Imtiaz Gul, a Pakistani security analyst who provided Emmerson with case studies of civilian victims of drone strikes, said the U.N. investigator’s research does shed light on civilian victims of the U.S. drone program and highlights the risky precedent set by carrying out missile strikes on foreign territory without that government’s consent.

“It’s not about forcing the U.S. to change its policy,” Gul said. “It’s more about educating on an issue that could create dangerous precedence for other countries.”


Washington state names “pot czar” after legalizing marijuana

Prominent policy analyst and UCLA professor Mark Kleiman has won Washington State’s consulting contract on I–502 implementation.

Reformers have had a “love/hate” relationship with Kleiman over the years. He supports some of our issues, like marijuana legalization — sort of.

He acknowledges the impact of prohibition in increasing the harmfulness of addictive drugs to their users, but states as nearly a fact the assumption that overall harm would go up with legalization nonetheless — while admonishing the rest of us not to make assumptions about the positive effects of even just marijuana legalization.

But Kleiman harshed the CNN host’s giggly buzz by not laughing back, and then taking a serious tone: “No, because I think whether the people on our team have used cannabis at one point or another … is irrelevant to the job we’ve been chosen to do.”


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Drone Patrol | Unfilter 35 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/31116/drone-patrol-unfilter-35/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:40:29 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=31116 The Department of Defence has signalled it’s dramatically increasing the size of its Cyber Command, but things are never as simple as it sounds.

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The Department of Defence has signalled it’s dramatically increasing the size of its Cyber Command, but things are never as simple as it sounds.

You might have heard that this new “comprehensive” immigration reform being worked on hinges on increased border security that relies heavily on drones to hunt illegal immigrants. We look at the numbers.

And why the US might be in hot water over it’s excessive use of drones around the world very soon.

Speaking of the cloud…

A new report details the major invasion British internet users\’ privacy on popular \’cloud\’ services.

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Internet Toll Booth | Unfilter 27 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/28191/internet-toll-booth-unfilter-27/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:24:00 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=28191 Starting next week a bitter struggle between world super powers for control of the Internet will begin, we bring you up to speed on it.

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Starting next week a bitter struggle between world super powers for control of the Internet will begin, we bring you up to speed on it, and update you on the efforts underway domestically to combat cyber boogeyman from the future.

Bradley Manning\’s treatment in custody will be heard in court, and we have the details. Plus We’ll update you on a few important stories that have repercussions around the world.

Then in ACT3: You sent in some tough questions, and we do our best to respond.

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Senators Make Bid To End Indefinite Detention In NDAA

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Super Spin Sandy | Unfilter 24 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/26886/super-spin-sandy-unfilter-24/ Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:41:35 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=26886 It’s been called a once in a lifetime super storm, we’ll reflect on the media’s coverage of this major event, and we bust the October Surprise rumors.

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It’s been called a once in a lifetime super storm, we’ll reflect on the media’s coverage of this major event, and we bust the October Surprise rumors that are spreading like wildfire online.

When you think of the fight for control of the Internet, you probably think of SOPA, CISPA, and Net Neutrality. But an International effort is underway and laying on thick rhetoric in an attempt to undermine the open nature of the web, we’ll share the details with you.

Then in ACT3: Your feedback challenges are assumptions, and we respond.

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Peek Inside | TechSNAP 63 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/20817/peek-inside-techsnap-63/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:00:02 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=20817 We take a peek inside a few never before seen data centers, and find out what makes the unique, then a major flaw affecting Intel chips, and some big answers to the Flame malware mystery! Plus some great Q&A and a few follow up stories you won’t want to miss! All that and more, on […]

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Washington Post and New York Times suggest Flame malware created by US and Israel

  • American officials say that Flame was not part of Operation Olympic Games (which was begun under President G.W. Bush)
  • Officials have declined to say whether the United States was responsible for the Flame attack
  • Obama repeatedly expressed concerns that any American acknowledgment that it was using cyber weapons could enable other countries, terrorists or hackers to justify their own attacks
  • New York Times Coverage
  • Noted Security Expert Bruce Schneier calls cyber warfare destabilizing and dangerous
  • Compared the 2007 Israeli attack on the Syrian nuclear facility, Stuxnet did not result in any loss of life, or risk to friendly personnel
  • However, Stuxnet has damaged the U.S.’s credibility as a fair arbiter and force for peace in cyberspace. Its effects will be felt as other countries ramp up their offensive cyberspace capabilities in response
  • The offensive use of cyber weapons opens a pandora’s box and weakens the U.S.’s long term position, in exchange for a short term gain
  • Have Stuxnet and Flame already destroyed the U.S.’s credibility as a leader for a free and open Internet?
  • Richard Clarke (Former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, and Author of ‘Cyber War’), contends that there is a firm distinction between cyber-espionage and offensive cyber-attacks
  • Clarke argues that while cyber-espionage should be considered a routine, acceptable practice of any country as part of government intelligence operations, cyber-attacks are much more grave, and should be considered on par with physical attacks
  • Clarke and others argue for international cyber weapon arms control treaties
  • Richard Clark: How China Steals Our Secrets

US-CERT discloses security flaw in 64 bit Intel chips

  • The issue surrounds the AMD64 processor instruction SYSRET
  • The instruction is implemented differently by AMD (who developed the AMD64 instruction set) than by Intel
  • Some implementations, notably: Microsoft, FreeBSD/NetBSD and Xen, used the AMD specifications
  • This resulted in a mismatch in the expected behavior, that could result in a privilege escalation
  • Microsoft’s Statement: An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights
  • FreeBSD’s Statement: Successful exploitation of the problem can lead to local kernel privilege escalation, kernel data corruption and/or crash. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to run code with user privileges on the target system
  • Xen’s Statement: 64-bit PV guest to host privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue only impacts servers running on Intel processors and could permit a 64-bit PV guest to compromise the XenServer host
  • Intel’s Statement: This is a software implementation issue. Intel processors are functioning as per specifications and this behavior is correctly documented in the IntelR64 Software Developers Manual, Volume 2B Pages 4–598–599
  • AMD’s Statement: AMD processors’ SYSRET behavior is such that a non-canonical address in RCX does not generate a #GP while in CPL0. We have verified this with our architecture team, with our design team, and have performed tests that verified this on silicon. Therefore, this privilege escalation exposure is not applicable to any AMD processor
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Team at Fujitsu cracks proposed new pairing-based cryptography standard

  • The team at Fujitsu, working in partnership with the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University, have successfully cracked 923-bit pairing based cryptography, in 148.2 days
  • Based on previous results it was estimated to take several hundred thousand years to break a 923-bit key
  • This does not mean that the security of pairing-based cryptography is entirely broken, just that a larger key size is required to maintain security
  • This type of research is why only open cryptography standards should be trusted, and why it takes so long to select new standards
  • The competition for the SHA–3 algorithm opened in 2007 and is not expected to be completed until later this year. More than 50 algorithms were entered into the competition, only 5 remain
  • Among the rejected algorithms is MD6, which proported to scale to very large numbers of CPU cores for long messages, due to speed problems and unsufficient proof if its resistance to differential cryptanalysis. MD6 is still a work in progress and may still be used sometime in the future
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  • NICT paper on cracking 676 bit pairing cryptography

A tour of GoDaddy’s Data Center

  • Photo Tour
  • Go Daddy is the registrar for over 52 million domain names
  • DNS infrastructure responds to 10 billion DNS queries per day
  • SSL infrastructure handles more than 1 billion OCSP responses every day
  • Currently hosts more than 5 million web sites on 35,000 servers
  • Blocks 2.5 million brute force attacks every hour.
  • More than 23 petabytes of data housed on its storage systems
  • Processes more than 350 million emails every day

OVH deploys world’s largest data center in Canada

  • The new data center makes use of OVH’s ‘Cube Data Center’ design, where servers are servers are kept in the outer corridors of the cube, and the center of the cube is open
  • Cold air is inlet from the outside of the cube, and the hot exhaust air is vented outside in the center of the cube
  • OVH also makes extensive use of water cooling for their servers, which they found can save as much as 30% on their energy bills
  • OVH Beauharnois, Quebec Data Center Video
  • The Quebec data center is located adjacent to the electrical sub station for the 1900 megawatt Beauharnois Hydroelectric Power Station, which will provide renewable energy for the data center
  • The data center also takes feeds from two additional power grids
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