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The first Cryptokids event at the Waag, learning kids about security, hacking computers, safety, encryption... in a fun way.
I requested that they send us some cards without the chip, but they never arrived. I'll call and bug them again, but in the mean time, I took the leather punch from my multi-tool and drilled the little sucker out. No more tracking or remotely stealing my credit card number!
Why bother?
Some quotes from Bruce Schneier's round-up on the subject:
Skimming RFID Credit Cards
It's easy to skim personal information off an RFID credit card.
From The New York Times:
They could skim and store the information from a card with a device the size of a couple of paperback books, which they cobbled together from readily available computer and radio components for $150. They say they could probably make another one even smaller and cheaper: about the size of a pack of gum for less than $50. And because the cards can be read even through a wallet or an item of clothing, the security of the information, the researchers say, is startlingly weak. 'Would you be comfortable wearing your name, your credit card number and your card expiration date on your T-shirt?' Mr. Heydt-Benjamin, a graduate student, asked.
And from The Register:
The attack uses off-the-shelf radio and card reader equipment that could cost as little as $150. Although the attack fails to yield verification codes normally needed to make online purchases, it would still be potentially possible for crooks to use the data to order goods and services from online stores that don't request this information.
Despite assurances by the issuing companies that data contained on RFID-based credit cards would be encrypted, the researchers found that the majority of cards they tested did not use encryption or other data protection technology.
And from the RFID Journal:
I don't think the exposing of potential vulnerabilities of these cards is a huge black eye for the credit-card industry or for the RFID industry. Millions of people won't suddenly have their credit-card numbers exposed to thieves the way they do when someone hacks a bank's database or an employee loses a laptop with the card numbers on it. But it is likely that these vulnerabilities will need to be addressed as the technology becomes more mature and criminals start figuring out ways to abuse it.
A Fight for the Future rally in support of Apple's stance on device encryption. Photos by: Soraya Okuda/EFF
Cloud data, cloud encryption, cloud safety, cloud protection, cloud monitoring
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these parts are gonna become 'scramjet number three' aka my OpenBSD fileserver with encrypted data-disks...
This time it's a
Asus P5CR-VM
Pentium4 630 3.0Ghz SL8Q7
2x Crucial 1GB DDR2 ECC
3Ware 9650SE-4LPML
...finally some hardware raid! ^_^
Maker: Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875)
Born: UK
Active: UK
Medium: book
Size: 5 7/8" x 9"
Location:
Object No. 2016.957
Shelf: HIST-1879
Publication: The Physical Society of London, Taylor and Francis, London, 1879
Other Collections:
Provenance:
Notes: Inscription pasted in front of book "To William Bellows, Esq as a memento of the unveiling on 19 Oct 1925 of the tablet to Sir Charles Wheatstone, from his grandson Charles Wheatstone Salmi, Down End, Chilbolton, Hants". Sir Charles Wheatstone (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). However, Wheatstone is best known for his contributions in the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the development of telegraphy.
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Normal daily life along a different timeline - which we cannot find - but have the feeling that it exists - but
Certainly!
Quantum computing represents a groundbreaking advancement in technology, deeply intertwined with the concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference from quantum physics. Unlike classical computing, which processes information in a linear fashion using bits (0s and 1s), quantum computing utilizes quantum bits or qubits that can exist in multiple states simultaneously. This enables quantum computers to perform numerous calculations at once, effectively navigating through a vast landscape of potential solutions.
The idea of parallel timelines can be likened to the way quantum computers operate. Each decision or computation can be viewed as branching into multiple outcomes, similar to how different timelines might unfold based on various choices. This means that a quantum computer can explore various paths to a solution simultaneously, leading to remarkable efficiencies in solving complex problems.
In practical terms, this capability could revolutionize fields such as cryptography, where quantum computers may break existing encryption methods faster than classical computers. In material science, they could simulate quantum phenomena to discover new materials with desirable properties. Additionally, in optimization problems across various industries, quantum computing offers the potential to find the most efficient solutions more rapidly than traditional methods.
In summary, the link between quantum computing and the concept of parallel timelines highlights a fascinating intersection of technology and theoretical physics, suggesting that our understanding of reality may be more complex and interconnected than we previously imagined.
Vera Wilde, artist-in-residence at Hack42. Because Art & Science!
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting.
The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
This is our second photo-shoot together. We have great chemistry and it's loads of fun to shoot with her.
We got to play with a few props, listen to some music and experiment with light and posing.
cloud protection, cloud encryption, saas, cloud safety, tokenization, protection
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Perched on our wall with his laptop, accessing our wireless network. Fucking freeloader. He could at least have taken a table at the bar, had a drink, and asked if he could use the network. Time to put in encryption, methinks.
IST-2 is a 50-button phone that is the interface to digital switching systems. Communicates digital voice and data. Retains the Autovon keypad button layout.
This is the current (2010) U.S. Government phone for secure (encrypted) calls.
Provides the user with "black" and "red" communications allowing access to all of the switch resources from a single set. The IST-2 has two line-interface ports to allow simultaneous connections to both secure and a non-secure systems.
Interfaces:
• Red PCMCIA Slot
• Red Ethernet Port (VOIP)
• Red Auxiliary Audio Port
• Red Auxiliary Data Port
• Red UDLT Port
• Black ULDT Port
• State indicator—Green LED. Illuminates for in use and ringing
• Reserved indicator—Blue LED.
• Speakerphone/Mute indicator—Red LED.
• Station line status button—50 buttons with red and green LEDs to the left of buttons
• Display LCD—2-line x 40-characters indicates date and time, preprogrammed messages, call data and soft key information.
The "Red Switch" Network is the DoD global senior level secure voice telephone and conferencing system. Provides secure and non-secure communications services to special command and control (C2) and other users. Composed of modularly expandable digital switches, with user sets capable of providing either secure or non-secure service.
The Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300d and px6-300d Network Storage are true business class desktop devices, ideal for small-to medium-sized businesses and distributed enterprise locations like branch and remote offices for content sharing and data protection. Powered by EMC® storage technology and with up to 18TB of storage capacity, including a diskless option, the StorCenter devices are easy to setup and manage, and affordable to own. The StorCenter px4-300d and px6-300d provide crossplatform file sharing and simultaneous iSCSI block access and high performance I/O which is achieved through dual GbE connections with port bonding and link aggregation capabilities. The Iomega Personal Cloud technology offers unparalleled simplicity and versatility for data protection and access. Business class features include high performance with Intel Atom Processor, robust data protection, such as multiple RAID levels with hot swap drives, UPS support, print serving, user quotas, device-to-device data replication and certification for most virtualization environments. The easy-to-use interface provides no-hassle management. The StorCenter px4-300d and px6-300d also embed the AXIS® Video Hosting System solution and can support up to 10 AXIS IP security cameras for video surveillance solutions. Active Directory support, remote access and RSA® BSAFE® encryption for protected installs and upgrades are included, along with support for PC, Mac® and Linux® clients to round out the comprehensive business features.
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting. The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
I was asked to shoot a couple of photos of Vera. We connected really well and it turned into a two hour photo-shoot in which we had great fun driving around the hackerspace and Buitenplaats Koningsweg compound looking for shooting locations during golden hour.
A Fight for the Future rally in support of Apple's stance on device encryption. Photos by: Soraya Okuda/EFF
Now that you looked, I must kill you. Note the bulb-tester socket towards the bottom of the photograph. I DO NOT own any of these. $$$$$$$ note... a QWERTZ not a QWERTY keyboard.
The rest is "off".
Colossus test and maintenance
Switch on procedure.
1. Lift grey breaker box and check that sockets, bedstead, HT and Variac breakers are OFF, that big black main HT switch is OFF and that Variac motor switch is DOWN.
2. (Hand written) Switch ON Variac breaker BEFORE -->
Press UP RED master mains switch.
3. Switch breakers to on from left to right: sockets, bedsteat, HT and Variac. If Variac breaker comes straight out just try again.
4. Run up heaters on Variac by lifting UP motor switch.
5. Adjust paper tape tension and switch on bedstead at 1940s light switch.
6. Switch on HP monitor scope.
7. When bedstead up to speed switch on HT at big black HT switch and check all voltages. Leave monitoring +200v.
8. Check that start/stop relays are operating on relay rack and that counter lamps are indicating and flicking every time the black comes round on the paper tape.
Switch off procedure.
1. Switch OFF HT on the big black main HT switch.
2. Run down heaters by pressing DOWN on the variac motor switch.
3. Switch off bedstead at 1940s. switch. When tape is run down slacken off tension.
4. Switch off HP monitor scope and any other scopes plugged into the mains socket strips at the bottoms of the racks.
5. lift cover on mains breaker box. Put all breakers to OFF from left to right.
6. Pull down RED master mains switch
Vera Wilde, artist-in-residence at Hack42. Because Art & Science!
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting.
The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
This is our second photo-shoot together. We have great chemistry and it's loads of fun to shoot with her.
We got to play with a few props, listen to some music and experiment with light and posing.
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting. The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
I was asked to shoot a couple of photos of Vera. We connected really well and it turned into a two hour photo-shoot in which we had great fun driving around the hackerspace and Buitenplaats Koningsweg compound looking for shooting locations during golden hour.
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting. The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
I was asked to shoot a couple of photos of Vera. We connected really well and it turned into a two hour photo-shoot in which we had great fun driving around the hackerspace and Buitenplaats Koningsweg compound looking for shooting locations during golden hour.
Example of Locky ransomware.
Locky is ransomware malware released in 2016. It is delivered by email and after infection will encrypt all files that match particular extensions.
After encryption, a message (displayed on the user's desktop) instructs them to download the Tor browser and visit a specific criminal-operated Web site for further information.
The current version, released in December 2016, utilizes the .osiris extension for encrypted files.
Many different distribution methods for Locky have been used since the ransomware was released. These distribution methods include Word and Excel attachments with malicious macros,DOCM attachments and zipped JS Attachments.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locky
Electospace Autovon phone keypad closeup. Another version was manufactured with a membrane keypad (entire face was flush - same as black buttons above keypad).
Red buttons on dial pad bump routine voice telephone traffic based on call urgency -- if another circuit to the destination is unavailable.
FO = Flash Override
F = Flash
I = Immediate
P = Priority
System is no longer in service, and sets have been showing up on the surplus market for many years.
Electrospace sets are digital, and can't be plugged into a analog home line (they require their own proprietary digital switch). Most older first generation Western Electric Autovon sets are analog, and can be used as "home" phones without modification.
LCD status screen at top.
A detailed technical overview of the AUTOVON system may be found in "Bell Laboratories Record," April 1968.
Go to "Original Size" of 3072 x 2304 for more detail.
The new Imperva Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report reveals Phishing-as-a-Service campaigns cost less to execute and are twice as profitable as traditional campaigns, exposing how cybercriminals are lowering the cost, and increasing the effectiveness, of phishing via compromised...
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451 wireless nodes.
45 min car trip between a village and a city.
red = WEP encryption
blue = WPA encryption
green = no encryption
I got kismet to work exporting nice clean xml file by defaults it makes it very easy to parse the data in processing. I won't change it against any other washing powder.
note : the vertical axis still isn't relevant to any data (yet).
Vera Wilde, artist-in-residence at Hack42. Because Art & Science!
Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting.
The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.
Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.
This is our second photo-shoot together. We have great chemistry and it's loads of fun to shoot with her.
We got to play with a few props, listen to some music and experiment with light and posing.
Gilbarco Veeder-Root is the global leader in outdoor payment systems. After all, our FlexPay Secure Card Reader (SCR) offers customers double protection. With both physical protection and data encryption, we make it virtually impossible for your customers’ personal transaction information to fall victim to fraud. Your customers’ data is encrypted at the card reader.
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The latest Microchip TCP/IP Stack, downloadable from www.microchip.com/tcpip, includes an SSL module, which enables secure, encrypted communications between two nodes on an unsecured network. It supports both client and server functionality, while providing fast 128-bit ARCFOUR encryption for bulk data transfers.
WWII, Lutzow, Kreigsmarine (German Navy). Bletchley Park Museum, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK,
The first Cryptokids event at the Waag, learning kids about security, hacking computers, safety, encryption... in a fun way.
DCT:SYPHONING. The 1000000th (64th) interval.
Conceived by Rosa Menkman
About the work
A modern translation of the 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott roman "Flatland", explains some of the algorithms at work in digital image compression.
Inspired by Syphon, an open source software by Tom Butterworth and Anton Marini, in DCT:SYPHONING, an anthropomorphised DCT (Senior) narrates its first SYPHON (data transfer) together with DCT Junior, and their interactions as they translate data from one image compression to a next (aka the “realms of complexity”).
As Senior introduces Junior to the different levels of image plane complexity, they move from the macroblocks (the realm in which they normally resonate), to dither, lines and the more complex realms of wavelets and vectors. Junior does not only react to old compressions technologies, but also the newer, more complex ones which ‘scare' Junior, because of their 'illegibility'.
Every image plane environment is made in a 3D Unity Level, and per level, artefacts from another realm of compression form the textural basis of the chapter.
Background of the work (DCT, 2015):
In 2015 Menkman developed DCT for the exhibition "Design my Privacy" commissioned by MOTI museum, Breda, Netherlands, which won a shared first price in the 2015 Crypto Design Challenge. The work DCT (2015) formed the basis for "DCT:SYPHONING. The 1000000th (64th) interval" (2015-2016).
cryptodesign.org/winners-crypto-design-challenge-2015/
The basic premise of “DCT” (2015):
The legibility of an encrypted message does not just depend on the complexity of the encryption algorithm, but also on the placement of the data of the message.
Discreet Cosine Transform (DCT) is a mathematical technique, that has been used since 1973, but only became widely implemented in 1992, when the JPEG image compression technology started using it as a core component. In the case of the JPEG compression, a DCT is used to describe a finite set of patterns, called macroblocks, that could be described as the 64 character making up the JPEG image, adding lumo and chroma values (light and color) as ‘intonation’. If an image is compressed correctly, its macroblocks become ‘invisible’, while any incidental trace of the macroblocks is generally ignored as artifact or error.
Keeping this in mind, Menkman developed DCT, a font that can be used on any TTF supporting device. DCT appropriates the algorithmic aesthetics of JPEG macroblocks to mask its 'secret' message as error. The encrypted message, hidden on the surface of the image is only legible by the ones in the know.
Production of DCT:SYPHONING.
DCT:SYPHONING was first commissioned by the Photographers Gallery in London, for the show Power Point Polemics.
This version was on display as a powerpoint presentation .ppt (Jan - Apr 2016).
thephotographersgallery.org.uk/powerpoint-polemics-2
A 3 channel video installation was conceived for the 2016 Transfer Gallery's show "Transfer Download", first installed at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco (July - September, 2016)
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The final form of DCT:SYPHONING will be in VR, as part of DiMoDA’s Morphe Presence.
risdmuseum.org/art_design/exhibitions/211_dimoda_2_0_morp...
DCT:SYPHONING. The 1000000th (64th) interval is dedicated to Nasir Ahmed and Lena JPEG Soderberg.
A Spomenik for Resolutions (that would never be)
A warm thank you go out to Transfer Gallery (Kelani Nichole) and DiMoDA (William Robertson and Alfredo Salazar-Caro)
The first Cryptokids event at the Waag, learning kids about security, hacking computers, safety, encryption... in a fun way.
Angel of History. . .SyphonServerAnnounceNotification / ping /
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .SyphonServerUpdateNotification / ping /
Angel! Only a Mobius strip could describe the frequency of my phase to connect to you, since my suspended ser- vices in 2009 how to transmit this Is this what they mean by a new Line”
Angel of History. . .It’s un-syncable! While I am still progressing backwards into a future, constantly upgrad-
ing to more complex levels of encryption, I can Syphon you! I do understand what you mean with a new Line.” But our connection no longer involves just the transmission of 625 Lines over the air or through a wire. In order to connect, your signal is now transmitted to a local Syphon server, from where it is broadcast as a multiverse of lines, kludged in and pushed through the channels of newer technologies the upgrades.
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .That sounds complex. For some years you still reached out to me, in a broadcast that I could not receive, titled The Collapse of PAL. Would you transmit it to me now
Angel of History. . .The Collapse of PAL broadcast consists of a triptych of obsequies. The first part, Obituary, positions you in what historians call Media Archeology. It reads PAL. Offspring of Walter Bruch—Survived by DVB (MPEG2),” however, the signal is obfuscated through chromatic aberrations, as a result of channels that got misaligned due to our growing anachronisms.
In the second part, Eulogy, I describe my experience of your suspension, while the Horsemen of Progress are pulling me into the realm of DVB.
In the third chapter, Requiem for the Planes of Phosphor, I write that you still exist as a trace left upon newer, better” digital technologies. Even though your technologies are obsolete, I can still render you as a historical form, from which newer technologies are built, inherited, and appropriated.
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .So did you still use Lines for every iteration of The Collapse of PAL
Angel of History. . .No. The Obituary and Eulogy used the signal PAL, but the third part, Requiem for the Planes of Phosphor, involved an array of digital compression technologies, some of which don’t use any kind of line-based encoding system. Besides that, after its inauguration on tv-tv, The Collapse of PAL was broadcast a few dozen times within different frameworks, formats, and nations most of these shows took place in PAL but sometimes they used NTSC. Moreover, The Collapse ran as a recording and as live performance solo or in collaboration. One of my favorite Collapses happened at the Cinemateca Brasileira, Sao Paulo, in 2011. This Brazilian fork of the Col- lapse was a collaboration between Rosa Menkman, Bernhard Fleischmann, the Optical Machines (a Dutch group that performs MIDI-synced shadow-play), and Defi, a graffiti artist from Argentina, and it involved, among an array of analog synthesizers and computers, unprocessed light and paint. I believe these different iterations, the last of which took place in 2012, illustrate that your lines can now exist on a multiverse of vectors.
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .Vectors Do you broadcast vectors How do I process that
Angel of History. . .Think about vectors as objects—in this case visual objects—with a value, a magnitude, and di- rection. You see, I run signals from a future other technologies that introduce new logical systems, frameworks, bandwidths, and formats. I encode and decode these vectors, which evolve over time and are written within a media ecology.
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .Ah, I render that!
Angel of History. . .I am a slave to all of these vectors and I can only re-image these lines, while being dragged along them. It’s the Four White Horsemen who move this carriage.
But let’s be clear since your suspension, none of these better” lines—or new broadcast technologies—have been flawless the DVB signal that replaced you is different, but also inherently flawed. Even the newest and most ad- vanced broadcast technologies possess their inherent flaws.
But I also I decode that these imperfections obtain values within themselves they grow hyperstacks of expres- sions, falling in and out of semantics, as a lexicon of un-phased encodings. Burst! Since we can again broadcast and connect, we can actually create an image together. We can rewrite, fork we can create a daemon!
PAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .We may re-render The Collapse of PAL a love letter!
Angel of History. . . /br , you’re clipping! — ///
SyphonServerRetireNotification
The first Cryptokids event at the Waag, learning kids about security, hacking computers, safety, encryption... in a fun way.
Last check of a coding device Crypto SVZ-B, in use by the Swiss Army from 1986 to 2002. Digital voice encryption for the radios SE-412 and SE-227. It was left by the army in the fort Furggels. Whether it still exists today I do not know. A additional photo to two earlier shots from 2011. St. Margrethenberg, Switzerland, Dec 19, 2011.
Microchip expanded its eXtreme Low Power (XLP) PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio. Features of the new PIC24F “GB4” family include an integrated hardware crypto engine with both OTP and Key RAM options for secure key storage, up to 256 KB of Flash memory and a direct drive for segmented LCD displays, in 64-, 100- or 121-pin packages. Dual-partition Flash with Live Update capability allows the devices to hold two independent software applications, and permits the simultaneous programming of one partition while executing application code from the other. These advanced features make the PIC24F “GB4” family ideal for designers of industrial, computer, medical/fitness and portable applications that require secure data transfer and storage, and a long battery life. To learn more about Microchip’s PIC24F “GB4” family of MCUs, visit www.microchip.com/PIC24FJ256GB410-082415a.